If you’re within range of one of these stations tomorrow (Saturday, March 9th) we hope you’ll join Mike as he hosts another edition of Tent Show Radio from Big Top Chautauqua.…View post

Reading this now (I wrote it in–gulp–1997) it’s good to know Steve Earle is still going strong. Elvis–some say–is still dead. From Off Main Street: In 1991, profoundly recalcitrant country artist…View post

I have been working on a pithy aphorism that best sums up my marriage (to a woman ten years my junior). This is what I’ve come up with so far:…View post

This is what happens when you forget to close the garage door overnight and there is road salt residue on the floor: Actually, I kinda envy his way of dealing…View post

As a guy who wrote an entire book based on his mechanical ineptitude, I take inordinate joy in even the smallest garage-based victory. My plow truck has refused to move…View post